Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best possible outcome of this report would be that Harvard would take full advantage of the structures implemented. Spence would appoint a vocal associate dean not afraid to lean on departments who do not make increasing minorities and women faculty members a priority. Faculty representatives would put affirmative action ahead of departmental parochialism and chummy loyalties. And Harvard would lead an effort by the nation's universities to encourage minorities and women to enter academic professions...
...immediate challenge facing the Verba Report is approval and implementation by the Faculty. A past affirmative action report lost its way in the Harvard bureaucracy in 1980 and has not been seen since...
...Review has for the past seven years run an affirmative action program for minority students to join its staff. "It's very informal. There are no quotas," said outgoing President Dan M. Kahan. "It's there so minorities can identify themselves as such when they are taking the writing competition. It's comparable to the School's program." But Kahan added that the policy does not apply to entry in to the Review's masthead...
Clearly, it is inappropriate for the Undergraduate Council to debate a specific case for which disciplinary action may be pending. The resolution as it was originally proposed was not meant to endorse either of the involved parties's versions of the complicated incident at Mather. The resolution in fact tried to move away from any single incident and to deal with indisputable fact that homophobia is a problem on campus...
Meanwhile, a spin-off job action by pilots nationwide failed to clog airports as feared...